"Itâ€™s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that weâ€™re of any real use."

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Henning Mankell

#Real Quotes #Use Quotes #Self Fulfillment Quotes

“What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil?”
“It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.”
“Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.”

Source : Scott Hahn (2005). “Hail, Holy Queen”, p.92, Image
“Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered-one does not usually lead to the other-but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.”

Source : "Armed against genocide" by Glenn Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2006.
“Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.”
“Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.”
“We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.”
“Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you donâ€™t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then lifeâ€™s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.”

Source : Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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